Re: Issue in CSS21 grammar?

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Aryeh Gregor wrote:

> As an author, I have to say I'm particularly confused by CSS's
> inability to handle classes starting with numbers (without escaping).
> As far as I can tell, to match the class "123456", you'd have to write
> ".\31 23456" or ".\00003123456", right?  That seems remarkably
> surprising given that HTML permits classes to begin with numbers, and
> as far as I know always has.  I can imagine it taking me quite a while
> to debug that if I hadn't had this discussion (I didn't know about
> that constraint until I read the test case fantasai posted).
>
> The change doesn't introduce backward incompatibility with any
> existing valid stylesheets.  To the extent it introduces
> incompatibility with existing *invalid* stylesheets, it might just as
> likely make them work closer to how the author intended instead of the
> opposite.  And it doesn't seem to me like it would be a significant
> hassle for implementers to change, which Anne agrees with.  So I don't
> see why there's any need to preserve browser convergence on this
> detail.

Hum, I fear yet another hackish way to discriminate between browser 
version...
Please, don't change what is already implemented for cosmetic issues.

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